A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

There is here no question of values or preferences. It is necessary, however, for any other kind of understanding to know why "primitive" drawing is two-dimensional, whereas the drawing and painting of literate man tends towards perspective.
The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man (1962), p 43
Year: 1962
Compiled by William Kuhns
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